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GARMENT SUPPURTER.

(Application led Oct. 26, 1598.)

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rn: Nonms Pirens co.. moro-umu., WASHINGTON, n. c,

` To allwhom it may concern."V

UNITEDSTATES lPATENT FFIC.

JAMES VQWASHBURNE, 0E WATERBUEY', CONNECTICUT.

-GARM ENT-SUPPoRri-m.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 657,302, dated september 4, 1900.

` Applicationiiledootoher 26, 1898. Serial No, 694,622. (Ilo model.)

Be it known `that I, `JAMES VWASHBIIR'NE,

of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven' and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Garment-Supporters; andl do hereby declare the following, when taken y in connection with the accompanying drawf `ings and the letters of reference fmarked. thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact descripf' tion ofthe saine, and which, saidfdrawings constitute part of this specification, and rep- Figure l, a perspective view showing.- one embodiment of my invention; Fig. 2, a sectional view thereofon the line a b of Fig. 1;`

3, a detached view, in inside elevation, of

improvement in clasps or fasteners of the type generally known as' garment-supporters, the object being to produce at a low cost for manufacture a simple and effectiveconstruction, of compact, neat, and ornamental appearance.

With these ends in view my invention consists in a garment-supporter comprising a skeleton socket having certain details of construction, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In carrying out my invention as shown in Figs. l to 3, inclusive, of the drawings my improved skeleton socket comprises a central tapering spine or backbone A and two corresponding wings or leaves A A', each of which is formed with three slots or openings A2, which are slightly pitched or inclined forward with respect tothe axis of the spine or backbone A. The slots or openings may vary in number; but it is designed that they shall be large enough to permit the cords B B, upon which they are clasped, to protrude through them somewhat, so as to increase the force of their bite. The 4said socket Ishallherein-` supporter from the cords generally employed y for that purpose. As shown, the said-suspension-socket is formed integral with the l, "upper end of the back or body plate B of the supporter, which also comprises a front plate or `fingexpi'ece B anda spring`B2.

n It will he understood that the wings A' A', before mentioned, are folded :over and pinched rmly down upon theends of the cords B B, which arethus gripped and held in place, and all Y the more firmly because the socket thus produced is smaller at its upper than at its lower end, so that the ends of the cords will flatten or spread out in the lower endof thesocket and form, as it were, a wedge, tendingto pre- `ventthecords from being pulled out of the socket. By preference ,the openings A2 in the wings will be formed by punching the metal from the back of the plate, so as to I produce slight burs upon the front of the plate. These burswill of course augment the gripping action of the socket.

In the construction shown by Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawings my improved skeleton socket F is made independently of the clasp and at its lower end is formed with a fiat plate F', provided with a rivet F2, which is passed through ,a suitable opening formed in the top of a clasp G and headed down upon the inner face thereof, as at f; but it will be observed that in all of the forms shown and described as vcontaining my invention, the 4openings or slots in the wings are constructed and arranged so that when the wings are folded the slots will extend on opposite sides of the central line of the fold, so as to be partlylocated in front and partly in the rear of the cornpleted socket.

It is apparent from the modifications shown and described that others may also be made, and I would have it understood that I do not limit myself to the exact constructions represented, but hold myself at libertyto make such changes and alterations as fairly fall Within the spiritand scope of my invention. I amaware, however, that it is old to provide the back plate or frame of a garment-supporter with a suspension-socket smaller at its` upper than at its lower end, and therefore do 

